Race against time for Skarv start-up

Technical issues: the Skarv FPSO

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By Steve Marshall and news reports

 28 December 2012 10:58 GMT

BP is facing a race against the clock to bring on stream stalled first production from its troubled Skarv field project in the Norwegian Sea by the end of the year.

However, a spokesman for the British supermajor said start-up of oil and gas output from the field’s floating production, storage and offloading vessel is now “imminent”, despite continued weather-related challenges.

“The top priority is to achieve a safe start-up,”BP’s Jan Erik Geirmo told Norwegian state TV channel NRK.

Production from Skarv was originally scheduled to start in August 2011 but has been repeatedly delayed by bad weather as high waves have prevented installation of risers on the vessel.

The project has also been plagued by time-consuming repairs to the FPSO’s turret, delivered by Dutch…

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